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l am completely new in the world of Linux. I wish to build up a computer having Proxmox, MX Linux and casa os, also retaining windows. (floss.social)

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@opensource l am completely new in the world of Linux. I wish to build up a computer having Proxmox, MX Linux and casa os, also retaining windows.

Can you please guide me in the process, how to start building one right from the scratch ?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

You're demand is really weird let me explain you a bit :

Proxmox and CasaOS are mainly use for servers
MX Linux and Windows are the opposite

So my first question is what will be this machine?

The second important question is why using Proxmox and CasaOS?

Proxmox is a hypervisor (a type 1 hypervisor) basically it's like VMware or virtualbox (that you run as app in your OS), but has the place here as the main OS. CasaOS on the other side is a bit different, it's more an user friendly self hosting service. So you cannot really use the both if the machine is meant to be a server.

And lastly sure you can dual boot windows and MX Linux (even if windows will surely eat your MX Linux partition, and wouldn't recommended it). But again you cannot really use your PC as a server and as a home at the same time ;-)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

@foremanguy92_ l see. Yes, l had a cloud based server in my mind. So, technically speaking, a server and a computer working for all general purposes cannot exist ??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They can technically but you will run into all sorts of problems. A Server is usually on all the time while a general purpose computer only periodically. There are two routes I see how you might get this to work:

If you use more of the general purpose PC: Just run a Type 2 hypervisor like virtualbox on your normal desktop OS and run all your server stuff in there. You can also run Proxmox inside virtualbox. This is called nested virtualization.
If you prefer to learn more virtualization: Run Proxmox, then run your preferred Desktop OS as a virtual machine inside Proxmox and pass through your GPU, mouse and Keyboard. This is called PCI/USB passthrough

Both approaches take a lot of ram (I recommend at least 16 GB).

Hope this helps :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@LeLachs okay. It's better to have a computer for general purposes, as a server would be a bit too ambitious. My general purpose is editing and converting video/audio and for coding. Mx Linux is good enough for doing this. The only reason I wish to keep windows 10 is that in order to remain connected with the world 🌍 which depends heavily on windows by default 🙄🙄🙄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why do you believe windows is required to stay connected with the world? Are there specific applications you believe can only run on windows or for which you believe there is no alternative?

Just in case, you can have a look at https://alternativeto.net/ , input your windows application and find opensource alternatives that run on Linux. You can make a list and double check with the community here.

I ask because there might be a possibility for you to go full Linux. It depends on your requirements.

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